US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on Oct. 6 for "Coaxial time-of-flight optical fiber distance measurement" (Massachusetts, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,314, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Coaxial time-of-flight optical fiber distance measurement" was invented by Charles A. Baker (Rogers, Minn.) and David Marcus (Northborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a laser tissue ablation system, a distal end of an optical fiber can extend from an endoscope. The optical fiber can receive therapeutic laser light pulses at first times, receive measurement light pulses at second times, direct the therapeutic laser light pulses and the measurement light pulses toward a target, collect, as collected light pulses, at least some of the measurement l...